ARAB INNOVATION ACADEMY

JANUARY 2020 | DOHA, QATAR

Learn what it takes to become a global entrepreneur and take part of a life changing experience.

In partnership with:

SPEAKERS

Maher Hakim

Former Managing Director | Qatar Science and Technology Park

Alar Kolk

Industry Fellow | Stanford University

Zaid Haque

Senior Program Manager| Amazon

Sharifa Al-Barami

High Commissioner - Oman | World Business Angels Investment Forum

Rick Rasmussen

Industry Fellow | UC Berkeley

Josh Fechter

CEO & Co-Founder | BAMF Media

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Lubna Dajani

Founder | Allternet Ltd

Matt Kuppers

Founder & CEO | Startup Manufactory

Emad Saif

Lecturer & Coordinator | Qatar University Center for Entrepreneurship

Katrin Scholz-Barth

Founder & CEO | Katrin Scholz-Barth Consulting

Matteo Antony Mistretta

Founder & CEO | Inglorious Coderz

Kristina McMenamin

Director Content Marketing & Brand | Paro.io

Gilles De Clerck

Founder & Growth Strategist | Ablaze Growth Studio

Patricia Soares da Costa

Partner & Branding Consultant | Marquinista

Dirk Lehmann

Coach | Dirk Lehmann & Partners

Ali El Amrani

Founder | Ibtiquar Innovation Lab

Majed Lababidi

Managing Director and Co-Founder | Droobi Health

David Trayford

Owner | WOW Media

John T. McEntire

Director of Industry Development and Knowledge Transfer | Qatar Foundation

Pontus Stråhlman

CEO | Spinnaker Ventures

Daniel Vila Boa

Founder & CEO | Chilltime

MENTORS

Rick Rasmussen

Industry Fellow | UC Berkeley

Zahra Tashakorinia

Founder| Brightteal, Inc.

Muyesser Taqi-Eddin

Co-Founder | Innovation Catalysts Institute

Zaid Haque

Senior Program Manager | Amazon

Charles Goguet

Co-Founder & Managing Director | Dybaw Venture Capital

Mohammad Zebian

Innovation Manager | QSTP

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Matteo Antony Mistretta

Founder | Inglorious Coderz

Younss Ait Mou

Research Fellow | Hamad Bin Khalifa University

Indrek Rebane

CTO | Hedgehog Electronics Engineering

Demetre Balaktsis

Trainer | Vital Core Life Skills Training

Daniel Vila Boa

Founder & CEO | Chilltime

Normandy Madden

Global Director, Media & Brand Innovation | The Digit Group

Kristina McMenamin

Director of Content Marketing & Brand | Paro.io

Abdulrahman Saleh Khamis

IT Department Director | Qatar Scientific Club

Matt Kuppers

Founder & CEO | Startup Manufactory

Hayfa Al-Abdulla

Innovation Director | QSTP

Patricia Soares da Costa

Partner & Branding Consultant | Marquinista

David Trayford

Owner | WOW Media

Diego D'Aquilio

Marketing Consultant | Synthesis3 S.r.l.

Fred Moritz

UX/UI Designer | UX Estonia

Rodrigo de Alvarenga

CEO & Founder | HAG Consulting

Rosena Nhlabatsi

IP Agreements & Portfolio Manager | Qatar Foundation

Gyorgyi Pretz

Coach | Drive Your Life

Agata Braja

UX Specialist & TEDx Organizer | Qatar Foundation

Dario Olivero

Design Director | DORODESIGN

Inna Boyadzhieva

Crowdfunding Expert | Backersway

Sachin Kumar

CTO | TupeloLifeHead | Google Developers Group Doha

Janno Stern

Co-Founder & CEO | Devtailor

Steven Sudy

Head of Startup Incubator | Sparklab by NN

John T. McEntire

Director of Industry Development and Knowledge Transfer | Qatar Foundation

Ali El Amrani

Founder | Ibitiquar Innovation Lab

Mari-Liis Kärsten

UX/UI Designer | Nortal

Abdulahi Hassen

Teaching Assistant & Developer | Qatar University

Ali Al-Sahli

Systems Engineer | Qatar Petroleum

Mariam Rafehi

Business Development Consultant | STATICE Paris

INVESTORS

Adriana Truong

Co-Founder | Truong.vc

Maher Hakim

Former Managing Director | QSTP

Max Gurvits

Director of CEE, CIS and MENA | Cross Border Angels

Pontus Stråhlman

CEO | Spinnaker Ventures

Sander van der Blonk

Venture Partner | Heywood & Sons

Sharifa Al-Barami

High Commissioner - Oman | World Business Angels Investment Forum

Qatar Science & Technology Park

Qatar Science & Technology Park (QSTP), member of Qatar Foundation, is a Free Zone, accelerator, and incubator for tech-product development in Qatar. The park fosters an innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem in Qatar that works to accelerate commercialization of market-ready technologies to realize Qatar’s national diversification drive.

QSTP’s focus ranges across four overarching themes, comprising Energy, Environment, Health Sciences, and Information & Communication Technologies, in line with the Qatar National Research Strategy announced in 2012.

Located in Qatar Foundation's Education City, QSTP has access to the vital resources of a cluster of leading research universities. Members of QSTP’s Free Zone include SMEs, international corporations, and research institutions. They are collectively committed to investing in new technology development programs, creating intellectual property, enhancing technology management skills, and developing innovative new products.

QSTP supports QF’s economic and human development objectives for Qatar, and is increasingly recognized as an international hub for applied research, innovation, incubation, and entrepreneurship.

Qatar Foundation – Unlocking Human Potential

Qatar Foundation for Education, Science, and Community Development (QF) is a private, non-profit organization that is supporting Qatar on its journey from a carbon economy to knowledge economy by unlocking human potential, for the benefit of not only Qatar, but the world. Founded in 1995 by His Highness Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the Father Emir, QF is chaired by Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser.

QF’s work encompasses education, research and community development. World-class universities are brought to Qatar to help create an education sector in which young people can develop the attitudes and skills required for a knowledge economy. At the same time, QF builds Qatar's innovation and technology capacity by developing and commercializing solutions through key sciences. The Foundation also works to foster a progressive society while enhancing cultural life, protecting Qatar’s heritage and addressing immediate social needs in the community.

TESTIMONIALS

Rick Rasmussen

UC Berkeley

We take the students from all over the world and put them through The Process. The process of forming teams, coming up with ideas, taking those ideas through steps like customer validation, trying to figure out weather their idea is interesting or unique enough, tying to find out what their business-cases look like and eventually presenting their idea in front of the panel of investors. The whole idea is to provide a mindset how to go ahead and become an entrepreneur as well as all the tools you need to go ahead and take an idea from concept into implementation.

Aya AbuDoleh

Jordan University of Science and Technology

I was honoured to participate in the first edition of the Arab Innovation Academy. Words can't be enough to describe the great experience the accelerated process and the most awesome people I've met. I can tell that I actually left with a new mindset, new vision and million of new skills.

Ken Singer

UC Berkeley

A fantastic program for people who are exploring the possibility of starting their own company. The program mimics the exact process that an actual entrepreneur would go through. You learn really quickly what you are really good at and what are the things you need to work on. You cant read it in a book. Experiential learning allows you to make these decisions on your own so you start realizing it is not that easy.

Martin Omander

Google

In the programs of Innovation Academy the development of technology is a social thing. Magic happens when you put a diverse group into a room together to work on a common idea. The students are doing the same as accelerators try to do in 3-6 months and I am amazed of how much comes out and how many projects are actually working after such a short time. Impressive!

Ravi Belani

Alchemist Accelerator

The programs of Innovation Academy are destinctive on a couple of dimensions: the first - they are truly experiential. The best way to learn entrepreneurship is to get out of the classroom and jump into immersive experience. And secondly the cultural experience during these three weeks is also incredible. You are working with cross-cultural teams from different backgrounds that bring a diverse set of experiences - it can be really important from the business perspective, but more importantly its just a lot of fun!

Tiffine Wang

UC Berkeley

You are in a place where you are mixed with people from all over the world and its not predictable. And you are really learning how to learn and how to adjust to something competely different. You are getting out of the classroom and recieveing a life-changing experience.

AIA Playbook

The Program Playbook guides participants daily as they follow our innovative steps to startup creation.

GROWBY - the official chatbot

A first-of-its-kind AI Chatbot, Growby helps launch startups by assisting and mentoring teams before, during, and after the program.

CUSTOMER Validation

Startups in our program validate their ideas quickly to avoid wasting time on a product nobody wants. Teams meet their potential customers right on the city streets of Doha to see if their ideas will hold-up.

STARTUP Expo

Startups present their ideas and solutions to all other participants, mentors and visitors at our public Startup Exposition. Teams will need to pitch their product while responding to questions to gain feedback from industry professionals and fellow peers.

European Innovation Academy

European Innovation Academy has become a recognized leader in tech entrepreneurship education. Our non-profit, educational programs are developed through joint partnerships with professionals from the world’s top institutions including: Stanford University, U.C. Berkeley, and Google.

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